Mommy, Where do Babies Come From?: Tres Hombres

There's a great little Mexican restaurant in Carbondale called Tres Hombres (for the Spanish-challenged, that translates to Three Men). In case you missed the Facebook announcement, we are expecting baby number 3 on December 28 (or later, as I suspect). Anyway, we don't know the gender yet, but we're guessing for several reasons that this one will be a boy as well, so we have been referring to all the kids as Tres Hombres. Watch, this one will be a girl and we won't be able to say it anymore. We haven't decided yet whether we'll find out the gender, but I have seen so many cute baby girl things, that I think I'll have to find out just so I don't go buying a boat-load of "just-in-case" outfits!

In other news, Vince recently celebrated his 3rd birthday and of course we've been potty training. It started out kind of rocky, because none of us knew what we were doing, but Vince is finally getting the hang of it. Today was Day Two with no accidents! He's finally starting to warn me before he goes pee and we can make it to the bathroom without having an accident. It's nice to be able to say that I have only one child in diapers for the next 6 months, anyway. He has to be completely potty trained before school starts in August, and I had my doubts for a while, but now I'm pretty confident he'll be ready. He'll be going to preschool 5 days per week, from 8am - 11am.

Anthony continues to develop well. He is adding new words to his vocabulary every day and saying them quite well. He still has an oral fixation and I'm sure he misses his pacifier: he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth. Literally. Clothes, toys, tools, puzzles, Bosley. All of it. He is learning to swim and made a lot of progress today in our dear friends Stephanie and Chip's pool. He's quite a bit younger than Vince was when we started using the little floatie vest suit, so he's having a slower time of it. Vince is an old pro at this point, swimming around all on his own (in the vest and floaties, of course).

Baby Ripley is growing fast. Vince loves examining my belly to see how much it's grown each day. I had a little bit of nausea and a lot of fatigue, but those have both gone away in the last couple weeks. I'm feeling great now (at 14 weeks) and just waiting to be able to feel the baby moving around.

We visited my Aunt Susie a couple weeks ago and the boys adored her. She took us to a beautiful park nearby and we all had a great time.

Hope you enjoy these recent photos:

Visiting Susie in Columbia, MO